An analogy finds itself in the institutions of society, which have distinct cultures, milieus, internal governance, external representation, and emergent symbiotic cooperation with other institutions, yet no independent existence.
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Someone I once met thought her brain had “implanted” in her head for the purpose of controlling her.

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I don't think that this is necessarily very far off from the truth. I am mostly identified with the cerebral side, and usually perceive the "embodied" parts as intruders that try to interfere with thinking, so I have to control them. Perhaps she is identified on the other side?
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It's more usual to make the analogy the other way round, especially in the case of eusocial insects: the queen is the colony's ovaries and the workers are the soma.
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I also usually see this the other way around: the fact that most cells cannot procreate has the same reason that workers cannot cooperate. The queen bee bottleneck of the gonads enforces evolutionary pressure for altruistic cooperation.
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Since they emerge all from the same initial cell... probably no. On the other hand, if our theory of evolution is right, all living organisms emerged from one common ancestor cell. Hmm....
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Yes, and this cell never died. Each living cell is the result of divisions of the first cell.
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No. The integration is too complete - organs are not viable outside the body.
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